NPR morning news apparently just reported...

Fri May 23 20:53:10 UTC 2003

A government contract handed out not on technical merit, but for back room 
political reasons ?  Shocking!

         ---Mike

At 01:33 PM 23/05/2003 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>     > According to this article, yes they were involved with
>     > AWCC:
>     > http://www.afghanwireless.com/news_6apr.html
>
>Ouch.  If they were responsible for AWCC, that would hardly seem to be a
>basis for awarding them another similar contract.
>
>                                 -Bill